Abducted Tenn woman's lunchbox found

In this undated photo provided by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, Holly Bobo is shown. Authorities are now looking at the possibility that Bobo, a 20-year-old missing woman from Decatur County, may have been abducted in a home invasion. Bobo was last seen Wednesday morning, April 6, 2011, by

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In this undated photo provided by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, Holly Bobo is shown. Authorities are now looking at the possibility that Bobo, a 20-year-old missing woman from Decatur County, may have been abducted in a home invasion. Bobo was last seen Wednesday morning, April 6, 2011, by a relative who says she was being dragged across the carport of her home toward a wooded area by a man wearing camouflage. (AP Photo/Tennessee Bureau of Investigation)

In this undated photo provided by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, Holly Bobo is shown. Authorities are now looking at the possibility that Bobo, a 20-year-old missing woman from Decatur County, may have been abducted in a home invasion. Bobo was last seen Wednesday morning, April 6, 2011, by a relative who says she was being dragged across the carport of her home toward a wooded area by a man wearing camouflage. (AP Photo/Tennessee Bureau of Investigation) (/ AP)

SHEILA BURKE, Associated Press

Searchers have found a lunchbox belonging to a western Tennessee nursing student who was abducted from her home by a man wearing full hunting camouflage, authorities said Friday.

Holly Bobo, 20, was last seen early Wednesday morning as she walked into the woods with an unknown man, but Tennessee Bureau of Investigation Special Agent John Mehr said authorities do not believe she went willingly.

"We feel she was in fear of her life, so she was complying with his commands," Mehr said.

TBI officials have said Bobo's 25-year-old brother Clint saw his sister outside the house with a man before she was kidnapped at around 7:30 a.m. But he only saw the man from the back, and he thought he was her boyfriend.

He did not become suspicious until he went outside and saw blood. Then he called 911.

"The boyfriend is not a suspect. The brother is not a suspect," Mehr said. "We are confident of that."

Officials have no suspects, he said.

TBI spokeswoman Kristin Helm said the TBI has not yet confirmed whether the blood outside the house belonged to Holly Bobo, who was on her way to her college classes when she disappeared.

The TBI had previously said Bobo was dragged from her home near Parsons, about 100 miles northeast of Memphis. On Friday, Mehr clarified that she was being held by the hand or arm, but not in a forceful manner.

Local deputies began searching for her shortly after her abduction and it had expanded to include multiple law enforcement agents and dozens of volunteers by nightfall. The massive search has continued every day, but so far the only sign of Bobo authorities have announced that has been found is the lunchbox.

On Thursday, Bobo's parents pleaded for help from the public. Her father, Dana Bobo, told reporters they suspect she was taken by someone who knew when family members came and went from the house.

"I just have a feeling it might have been somebody close, who knew our routine - when she (his wife) left, when I left, when our daughter left," Dana Bobo said.

"Holly, I love you so much," her mother, Karen Bobo, an elementary school teacher, said through sobs. "... She's just so precious, you don't even know."

Even Decatur County Sheriff Roy Wyatt choked back tears as he reiterated the plea for help.

"This family - we can only imagine what they're going through," he said. "They need your help."